Tanjung Tourism Village

It is located 5 km to the north of Monjali. In Yogyakarta, village tourism was introduced for the first time in 2001. Now, there are many places around Yogyakarta which have been developed as village tourism, for example Sambi, Trumpon, Gamplong and Tanjung in Sleman regency, and Kasongan and Tembi in Bantul regency. Tanjung village can be considered as the successful one, as village tourism. Visiting Tanjung, people could choose some programs. There almost 25 programs offered to learn cultural activities such as dancing, making traditional textile, knowing more about Javanese architecture, or learning how to cultivate sawah or rice field. Those programs are suitable for secondary or tertiary school students, and surely these programs would attract them. These students learning how to cultivate sawah or rice field programs are not only recreational in nature but also give knowledge and experience new skill for them.

Village tourism in Tanjung was managed by the village leaders and involves almost all people in the village to serve tourist who visit the area.

Accommodations for tourists are distributed in the local houses. Food for the tourists is also catered by the local people and they serve local menu as well. They also take parts as field operators such as trainer for dancing, batik or cultivation in the rice field and so on. It is no doubt that there are still possibilities for Yogyakarta to open many village tourisms with a specific program which is in accordance with village’s own characteristic such as cultivating plantation, farm or animal husbandry, learning about river’s ecology and folk arts, and etc.

In Tanjung we will find Joglo house, the big house with its wide yard and Pendopo (hall) can be used as lesehan (mat for sitting) for 100 – 200 people.